A Warsaw district court this week-end sentenced Franshishek Petersile, film producer, to five years imprisonment for making Nazi propaganda films for the Germans during the Nazi occupation. Petersile was the producer of many pro-Nazi short subjects including the notoriously anti-Semitic film “Jews and Typhoid”.
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